“Using images, video, and fragments of text, everyday users as well as artists, historians, poets, and filmmakers are creating millions of experiences that inform, entertain, and speculate.”

And so it is that the November 3 and 4 event at the Gray Area’s Grand Theater is formally titled “Books in Browsers VII: Telling Small Stories.”

“All over the globe, mobile users are producing and sharing videos on social platforms, documenting small pieces of our lives and binding the planet together in a tapestry of pictures and videos,” says Brantley.

“And with accessible Virtual Reality platforms like Google Daydream and Sony’s Playstation VR, we’re in the early stages of creating immersive, life-like replications of our world.”

Over the years, the event has drawn a loyal base of delegates whose interest is in seeing publishing in particular and storytelling in general move past the early stages of the digital dynamic.

The rising passion for the visual array of potentials, Brantley says, “is why Frankfurt Book Fair is pivoting Books in Browsers this year to examine these newer forms of interactive and visual story-building.

“‘Telling Small Stories’ explores the rich and exciting diversity of our image-centric world.”

Many more articles of this kind bring to light various elements of the just-ended Frankfurt Book Fair 2016 in our Publishing Perspectives Show Daily editions. You can download them all here, free of charge.

About the Author

Porter Anderson

Porter Anderson has been named International Trade Press Journalist of the Year in London Book Fair's 2019 International Excellence Awards. He is Editor-in-Chief of Publishing Perspectives. He is also co-owner and editor with Jane Friedman of The Hot Sheet, the newsletter for trade and indie authors. He formerly was Associate Editor for The FutureBook at London's The Bookseller. Anderson also has worked as a senior producer, editor, and anchor with CNN.com, CNN International, and CNN USA, and as an arts critic (National Critics Institute) with The Village Voice and Dallas Times Herald.